Essential Library of Congress Subject Headings

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-85604-618-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) are increasingly seen as 'the' English language controlled vocabulary, despite their lack of a theoretical foundation, and their evident US bias. In mapping exercises between national subject heading lists, and in exercises in digital resource organization and management, LCSH are often chosen because of the lack of any other widely accepted English language standard for subject cataloguing. It is therefore important that the basic nature of LCSH, their advantages, and their limitations, are well understood both by LIS practitioners and those in the wider information community.

Information professionals who attended library school before 1995 - and many more recent library school graduates - are unlikely to have had a formal introduction to LCSH. Paraprofessionals who undertake cataloguing are similarly unlikely to have enjoyed an induction to the broad principles of LCSH. This is the first compact guide to LCSH written from a UK viewpoint.

Key topics include:

background and history of LCSH

subject heading lists

structure and display in LCSH

form of entry

application of LCSH

document analysis

main headings

topical, geographical and free-floating sub-divisions

building compound headings

name headings

headings for literature, art, music, history and law

LCSH in the online environment.

Readership: There is a strong emphasis throughout on worked examples and practical exercises in the application of the scheme, and a full glossary of terms is supplied. No prior knowledge or experience of subject cataloguing is assumed. This is an indispensable guide to LCSH for practitioners and students alike.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Broughton, Vanda

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Systematiken, Katalogisierung, Klassifikation, Bibliographisches Arbeiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. History and principles of LCSH 2. Subject heading lists and the problems of language 3. Format and display of LCSH 4. The choice and form of headings 5. Content analysis 6. Assigning main headings 7. Structured headings 8. Topical subdivisions 9. Geographic subdivisions 10. Free-floating subdivisions 11. More complex headings: combining the different types of subdivisions 12. Chronological headings and subdivisions 13. Name headings 14. Literature and the arts 15. Headings for music 16. Classification Web 17. LCSH in the online world 18. Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Vanda Broughton